Richard Findley
Established Member
Hi all,
Thought I'd post my latest project for you all to see. I was given a brief along the lines of "a lockable box to hold 20 dvds/cds in a nice wood as it's a gift" along with a rough sketch of what the client had in mind. Turns out it is for a 20th birthday present and photos from the last 20 years have been put onto photo cds and will be presented in this:
and open:
European Oak, finished with 3 coats of Finishing Oil and a coat of golden brown wax. The box sits on 4 small turned feet which you can't really see in the photo.
There are 2 aspects of this project I thought some would find interesting. Firstly, the corners are made using a Mitrelock cutter. After I asked a few questions on the general woodwork forum I decided to buy one and I also picked up several tips about the best ways to use them, combined with my existing router knowledge, this worked pretty well!! This is my set up:
You can see in the picture that there are 2 fences in use, the back one is set to the final position of the main fence, the main fence can then be moved forward and a series of lighter cuts made. The reason for the 3mm MDF base board is:
Because of the size of the cutter I needed to remove one of the ring plates from the table insert, which meant when holding the wood vertical, the edge occaisionally dipped into the space which messed up the nice tight fitting joint so a 3mm base board clamped in place prevented this.
I also used the spindle moulder technique of cutting through a sacrificial fence to give maximum support for the wood. This really helped!!
The other thing I thought might be of interest is how I set up to make the cd holding inserts. I decided early on that those plastic inserts you can buy would spoil the look of the box so decided to make them. I set up with a 6mm cutter which was perfect and also the same double fence set up I used for the Mitrelock operation:
In between the 2 fences I placed a load of strips of 6mm MDF, I made a cut and removed 2 strips, which moved the fence back 12mm, I then made another cut, on so on and so on:
This worked really well and took only about half on hour to cut the 20 slots I needed.
I hope you enjoyed reading my post. Please feel free to comment and ask questions.
Cheers,
Richard
Thought I'd post my latest project for you all to see. I was given a brief along the lines of "a lockable box to hold 20 dvds/cds in a nice wood as it's a gift" along with a rough sketch of what the client had in mind. Turns out it is for a 20th birthday present and photos from the last 20 years have been put onto photo cds and will be presented in this:
and open:
European Oak, finished with 3 coats of Finishing Oil and a coat of golden brown wax. The box sits on 4 small turned feet which you can't really see in the photo.
There are 2 aspects of this project I thought some would find interesting. Firstly, the corners are made using a Mitrelock cutter. After I asked a few questions on the general woodwork forum I decided to buy one and I also picked up several tips about the best ways to use them, combined with my existing router knowledge, this worked pretty well!! This is my set up:
You can see in the picture that there are 2 fences in use, the back one is set to the final position of the main fence, the main fence can then be moved forward and a series of lighter cuts made. The reason for the 3mm MDF base board is:
Because of the size of the cutter I needed to remove one of the ring plates from the table insert, which meant when holding the wood vertical, the edge occaisionally dipped into the space which messed up the nice tight fitting joint so a 3mm base board clamped in place prevented this.
I also used the spindle moulder technique of cutting through a sacrificial fence to give maximum support for the wood. This really helped!!
The other thing I thought might be of interest is how I set up to make the cd holding inserts. I decided early on that those plastic inserts you can buy would spoil the look of the box so decided to make them. I set up with a 6mm cutter which was perfect and also the same double fence set up I used for the Mitrelock operation:
In between the 2 fences I placed a load of strips of 6mm MDF, I made a cut and removed 2 strips, which moved the fence back 12mm, I then made another cut, on so on and so on:
This worked really well and took only about half on hour to cut the 20 slots I needed.
I hope you enjoyed reading my post. Please feel free to comment and ask questions.
Cheers,
Richard
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